2025 Earth/Environmental Science Final Exam - Mock

The study of Earth and the environment is known as?

• Earth/Environmental Science

• Physical Science

• Chemistry

• Biology

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True or False: The universe we live in is expanding?

• True

• False

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The Austrian Mathematician that created what we know as “Kepler’s Laws”

• Johannes Kepler

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Mr. Marshall

• Tyco Brahe

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The apparent change in wavelength for frequency of the energy emitted by a moving object is called?

• The Galileo Effect

• The Doppler Effect

• The Newton Effect

• The Hubble Effect

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What is a THEORY?

• A well tested explanation

• The best explanation of a natural event

• Tested and supported with evidence

• All the above

The lithosphere is made up of…?

• The Crust and Upper Mantle

• The Lower Mantle

• The Core

• All of the above

What are the three types of evidence for the Continental Drift Theory

• Fossils

• Rocks

• Glaciation

• All of the above

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The Plate Tectonics Theory is a theory that the earth’s crust is…?

• Divided into plates

• Never moving

• Coming together again

• I don’t know

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At a convergent boundary…?

• Plates are colliding

• Plates are separating

• Plates are scraping past one another

• Plates are not moving

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The boundary separating the metamorphic and sedimentary bedrock in NC is called the…?

• Mountains

• Piedmont

• Coastal Plains

• Fall Zone